10,000,000 people in the United States to-day who are not properly
sheltered and properly fed? If the child of the caveman did not have
to work, why, then, to-day, in the United States, are 80,000 children
working out their lives in the textile factories alone? If the child
of the caveman did not have to work, why, then, to-day, in the United
States, are there 1,752,187 child-labourers?

It is a true count in the indictment. The capitalist class has
mismanaged, is to-day mismanaging. In New York City 50,000 children
go hungry to school, and in New York City there are 1,320
millionaires. The point, however, is not that the mass of mankind is
miserable because of the wealth the capitalist class has taken to
itself. Far from it. The point really is that the mass of mankind
is miserable, not for want of the wealth taken by the capitalist
class, BUT FOR WANT OF THE WEALTH THAT WAS NEVER CREATED. This
wealth was never created because the capitalist class managed too
wastefully and irrationally. The capitalist class, blind and greedy,
grasping madly, has not only not made the best of its management, but
made the worst of it. It is a management prodigiously wasteful.
This point cannot be emphasized too strongly.

In face of the facts that modern man lives more wretchedly than the
caveman, and that modern man's food- and shelter-getting efficiency
is a thousandfold greater than the caveman's, no other solution is
possible than that the management is prodigiously wasteful.

With the natural resources of the world, the machinery already
invented, a rational organization of production and distribution, and
an equally rational elimination of waste, the able-bodied workers
would not have to labour more than two or three hours per day to feed